School board candidate Mike McMahon isn’t just a long-serving incumbent: He’s also a dyed-in-the-wool election junkie well known to followers of local politics for compiling an exhaustive catalogue of …

Alameda’s City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to rezone federal property near Crab Cove for park use – and to remove contested language from a companion measure council members said was designed to …

By Dave Boitano A quiet race for the 18th Assembly District seat translated into a polite – if predictably partisan – debate Tuesday during a League of Women Voters forum. Challenger David Erlich, who …

Bills that would revamp the community college accreditation process and permit worker cooperative companies are among the two dozen that have been proposed by Alameda Assemblyman Rob Bonta during the …

By Dave Boitano City Hall is better organized, the city is greener than ever before and Alameda Point will soon see development after a 17-year wait, Mayor Marie Gilmore said Tuesday during her annual …